February 2012

24/02/12

Sea Ice

In February we had a week of exceptionally cold weather and hardly any snow along the Dutch coast. With temperatures well below -10°C ice formation carried on all day. In combination with tidal action large sheets of ice started moving at sea and in the course of a few days piles of ice formed of more than two meters high! Great for landscape photography, but not so great for the birds. I counted more than 20 dead dunlins on the ice…